While a vast majority of teens (90 percent) say their parents trust them to be responsible online, 45 percent said they would change something about their online behavior if their parents were watching. [Source]

Among parents with children less than 8 years old, they use the following methods to help control their child's media content access:

Less than 47 percent of parents are aware of what their child is doing online.[Source]

Fewer than half of teens are bothered by parental monitoring of their online or mobile activities and a majority of teens say parent's looking over their shoulder doesn't bother them that much. [Source]

91 percent of parents say they are well informed about what their teens do online or on their cellphones, but only three in five teens would say their parents know what they do online. [Source]

93 percent of parents say they talk to their teens about online safety, while only 61 percent of teens report having this conversation. [Source]

Nearly half of teens say they have posted something online that they later regretted. [Source]

One in three teens say they feel more accepted online than they do in real life, while nearly 80 percent of teens used the Internet or social media to reinvent themselves. [Source]

8 percent of people in the U.S., ages 16 – 34, have been turned down for a job because of their social media profile.[Source]

70 percent of parents say that they monitor their children's social networking activities.[Source]

46 percent of parents have access to their children's social networking accounts. [Source]

81 percent of teens on social networks use privacy settings on their account, with 65 percent setting limits on who they share their posts with and 50 percent have "unfriended" someone due to an offensive post. [Source]

90 percent of teens, ages 13 to 17, have used social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.). 75 percent currently have a profile. [Source]

52 percent of teenagers, ages 13 to 17, with a social media profile have checked their profile from a mobile device. [Source]

87 percent of youths witnessed cyberbullying, compared to 27 percent the year before who said they witnessed cruel behavior online. [Source]

Of the teens who witnessed cyberbullying, 53 percent said victims reacted with defensiveness or anger, while 47 percent deleted their social media accounts. [Source]

Nearly a quarter of teens say they would not know what to do if they started being harassed or bullied online. [Source]

Many online arguments have offline consequences, as half of teens say they have been involved in an argument because of an online post, a 51 percent increase from the year before. Four percent of teens say they saw a negative online exchange turn into a physical fight. [Source]

47 states now have laws addressing "electronic harassment," including 18 states that specifically refer to "cyberbullying." [Source]

27 percent of youth have witness cruel behavior online and only 9 percent of parents are aware of this.[Source]

43 percent of teens, ages 13 to 17, report being a victim of "cyberbullying" in the past year.

20 percent of those who experienced cyberbullying said someone posed as someone else while online to find out personal information about themselves.

13 percent said a cyberbully pretended to be them online.

17 percent said a cyberbully lied about them online.

10 percent said someone posted pictures without their permission with the intent to embarrass them.